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falling out

DEFINITIONS OF: falling out

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n a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)

Synonyms:
breach, break, rift, rupture, severance
Examples:
Great Schism
the period from 1378 to 1417 during which there were two papacies in the Roman Catholic Church, one in Rome and one in Avignon
Types:
schism
the formal separation of a church into two churches or the withdrawal of one group over doctrinal differences
Type of:
breakup, detachment, separation
coming apart
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